Here are some of the details/background. I'd strongly recommend a jakarta-commons shared codebase for use by Axis, Tomcat, Cocoon and ANT (These are the ones that i know of).
- Axis's classes for Javac were borrowed from Cocoon2. It uses sun.tools.javac.Main. - Tomcat 4.X, 3.X current uses sun.tools.javac.Main. - Jasper2 uses ANT's Javac task. - Ant has 2 classes - Javac12.java uses sun.tools.javac.Main. - Javac13.java uses com.sun.tools.javac.Main. - Problem with both sun.tools.javac.Main and com.sun.tools.javac.Main are that they are undocumented. - In sun.tools.javac.Main, you can specify an output stream to capture Compile errors. This "Feature" does not exist in com.sun.tools.javac.Main. - Ant most probably redirects the System.out and System.err to get the compile errors when it uses com.sun.tools.javac.Main. - Here are the URL's: Cocoon 2.0: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-cocoon2/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/components/language/programming/java/Javac.java Tomcat 4.X: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/jasper/src/share/org/apache/jasper/compiler/SunJavaCompiler.java Tomcat 3.X: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-tomcat/src/share/org/apache/jasper/compiler/SunJavaCompiler.java Jasper2: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper/compiler/Compiler.java Ant: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/Javac12.java http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/Javac13.java Thanks, dims --- "Ignacio J. Ortega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > De: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Enviado el: 5 de junio de 2002 23:18 > > > Anyhows, as and when sun.tools.javac.Main goes away, you will > > be able to cut > > and paste the replacement from ant. > > > > Alternatively, we could factor out the java compilation > > adapters into a > > jakarta-commons lib, so that other tools that compile code > > (Tomcat springs > > to mind) can share code. > > FYI: Jasper2 ( the proposed replacement JSP compiler for 4.1.X release ) > has switched from his own adapter to javac to the one present at the > current Ant ( 1.4 codebase if i recall well), just for the very same > reasons you give in your message.. it's unlikely that ant will stop to > compile java at any future version :)).. and this way one can leave > those things to the people that already know how.. > > Saludos , > Ignacio J. Ortega ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://xml.apache.org/~dims/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
